Humanitarismo cliché: miradas migrantes hacia la retórica de la piedad peligrosa en We Need New Names y Americanah

Tatiana Calderón Le Joliff, Christian Pardo-Gamboa

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Resumen

Due to their intermediate condition of cultural translator, the migrant subject presents an ambiguous perspective on the clichés of humanitarianism. The protagonists in We Need New Names and Americanah are able to relate their experiences with humanitarian aid, while migration distances them from this condition, due to their origins, leading to a critical and ironically condemnatory voice about the paradoxes of piety. At the same time, their settlement in the host country disorients them and makes them progressively lose their ability for making penetrating reflections, turning them into consumers of suffering from a distance and reinforcing the coloniality of power. First, we look at the uprooting of migrant subjects, Ifemelu and Darling; this is followed by a discussion on the evolution of the politics and the paradoxes of pity and their influence on the spectacle of suffering from the gaze of the migrant subject; and finally, we examine the artifice of cliché humanitarianism in the media and photography, and its relationship with ngos.

Título traducido de la contribuciónCliché Humanitarianism: Migrant Gazes at the Rhetoric of Dangerous Pity in We Need New Names and Americanah
Idioma originalEspañol
Páginas (desde-hasta)207-238
Número de páginas32
PublicaciónCo-herencia
Volumen19
N.º36
DOI
EstadoPublicada - ene. 2022
Publicado de forma externa

Palabras clave

  • Uprooting
  • humanitarianism
  • media
  • migration
  • piety

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